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What a year it's been, both inside and outside the glass industry. Here are our highlights (and some lowlights) from 2024 to help you reflect in front of the fire with a glass of something fortifying. Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year!
- Patrick Flannery, publisher/editor
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Antamex Industries was put into receivership by Ontario courts on March 14. Subsequently the company was wound up and its physical assets auctioned off in the summer. According to court documents, the facade fabricator’s collapse was precipitated by the failure of its Connecticut subsidiary, Naverra, which stopped paying its lease and was consequently padlocked by its landlord.
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Agnora has announced the acquisition of West Coast Glass Products, a premium architectural glass fabricator based in Cerritos, Calif. Established in 1988 by Rusty Neubauer, WCP has garnered a reputation in the industry as a leader in high-performance insulated glass materials. Together, Agnora and WCP will continue to focus on fabricating custom, high-quality architectural glass for premium residential and commercial customers.
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Fenestration Canada announced an agreement with Fenestration Manitoba, officially integrating the latter as a chapter of Fenestration Canada. The management, branding and event planning of Fenestration Manitoba is now overseen by Fenestration Canada.
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Peter Neudorf Sr. was born on March 1, 1930 in the small Mennonite Village of, Neuanlage, Saskatchewan. In 1942, at the age of twelve, he moved to Ontario, near the town of Jordan with his family. At this time, Peter had not yet learned to speak English as his first language was Low German.
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Ennio Rea, 72, is retiring from Imagic Glass after a remarkable 56-year career in the architectural glass industry. His journey has included time with some of Canada's most iconic fenestration companies and taken him quite literally around the world. Rea started in the industry at Moore Glass in 1968, working a summer job on the floor at the Toronto glass fabricator. In 1969, Moore was bought by Glaverbel, which later became AGC Glass Europe. In 1973, the growing Indal Group brought Moore into the fold with Temp Glass, the first company in Canada tempering architectural glass. Rea started out driving ...
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Vacuum insulated glass (VIG) consists of two panes of glass separated by a submillimeter evacuated gap. To maintain the gap separation against atmospheric pressure, the panes are held apart by a regular array of tiny metal or ceramic pillars (typically, cylindrical, 0.5 millimetre in diameter and 0.2 mm in height). The perimeter of the panes is sealed around the glass edges using either a fused solder glass or a metal solder. VIG is effectively a flat transparent thermos flask.
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In our last feature for Glass Canada [“The window of the future,” June 2024] we introduced vacuum insulating glass, or VIG. This glazing consists of two panes of glass separated by an evacuated gap about 0.2 millimeters wide. To maintain the gap separation against atmospheric pressure, the panes are held apart by a regular array of tiny metal or ceramic pillars (typically cylindrical, 0.5 millimeters in diameter and 0.2 millimeters in height). The perimeter of the panes is sealed around the glass edges with a fused solder glass or a metal solder. We also wrote about the established and newer manufacturers of VIG and how VIG is being employed in a growing number of projects.
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The huge increase in working from home during the pandemic changed many things in our society, including the use of downtown office space. So many firms have permanently adapted to having completely remote or part-time remote working scenarios.Company leaders also like the savings from renting less office space and, unfortunately, the pandemic also caused many other companies to go under, vacating yet more office space. Combine that with the dire need for more housing in Canada, and you have growing numbers of conversions of commercial buildings to living space. All over the country, office towers, but also malls and even industrial spaces, are being turned into condos and rental apartments.
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Our fast-changing world of tightening energy standards and embodied carbon is challenging us all to look at different design approaches and different materials. Enter a true Canadian glass innovator – Advanced Glazings in Sydney, N.S., and their Solera and SoleraWall products that use an aerogel fill to make translucent architectural glass products with energy performance similar to vacuum insulated glass. CEO Satterwhite and founder and president Milburn join the podcast to explain aerogel; discuss the performance characteristics; talk about how daylighting can meet aesthetic, health and energy conservation needs; and reveal how they have found success with a product few glass companies in the world have the expertise to make.
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Langley, B.C.,-based Cascadia has published its first environmental product declarations for its fibreglass fenestration systems and its happy it did. Marketing manager Chris Guelpa joined the Conversation to talk about the process; the help they got; the markets and opportunities the EPDs are opening up; and how fibreglass stacks up in the embodied carbon discussion.
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Keith Daubmann is an owner of MY Architectural Glass and MY Shower Door, a glass fabricator and custom glazing contractor serving southwestern Florida. What makes Daubmann unique is his thunderous presence on social media, running accounts with around 30,000 followers and hosting a weekly YouTube show, Hard Hat Highlights. He claims he has never had a guest on his show that didn’t become a client shortly after. Daubmann joined GlassTalk to talk about how to use social media in the glass business and how it can do a lot of the work of building trust with prospects before you even meet them.
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Midland, Ont. - You'll work closely with other team members to ensure all maintenance activities.
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Edmonton, Alta. -We are looking for a motivated, and professional sales representative who enjoys the challenge of building our reputation and business development.
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Kelowna, B.C. - Work is primarily commercial HVAC service & installation projects in the valley with occasional out of town work.
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